FOLLOWING THE BIG GREEN TEAMS

February set a gruelling pace for Dartmouth's entries in the hockey and basketball leagues. In the determined struggle for leadership the Green ice team entrenched itself at the top by sweeping the Harvard series for the first time since 1928, while the Green court team was buried under an avalanche of baskets by Yale, Pennsylvania, and Princeton, and slipped down to keep Columbia company in fifth place. The swimming and track teams made their winter debuts, and all in all the month presented as bustling an athletic picture as is likely to be seen in Hanover throughout the year.

The Green hockey team had hardly got its league campaign rolling in January before the examination period came along, but the necessary lay-off proved harmless enough as the Indians returned to action •on February 3 and administered a 7-3 trouncing to the highly-touted Boston university sextet. Dartmouth came from behind to tie the score at 2-all late in the second period, and then went on a scoring rampage to tally five times in the final session. As in previous contests, Dartmouth's manpower was a telling weapon, and the Indians finished stronger than they began. Wilbur Powers, speedy wing, had a big evening with three goals, two of which were made on passes from Frankie Spain; and Rollie Morton, giant center, dominated the final period by netting two shots and passing to Butler in a third scoring play.

Coach Gill's speedsters traveled down to New Haven for a return engagement with on February 7, and were nosed out, 4 to 3, in a thrilling contest that was finally decided in the second overtime period. Penalties were costly to the Indians, and with Spain and Fitzpatrick in the box, Yale scored twice in the first period within a minute and a half. The absence of Wilbur Powers from the first line because of illness was also somewhat of a factor, although Don Crowther and George Riley filled in capably.